For us, the past is a haven that we are loathe to depart, lest the future corrupt our soul.īetter not to change at all, rather than become someone we will not recognize. Other times, we rail against its unexpected cruelty, against the sharp thrust into a world we're not ready to explore, one we do not know or trust. Sometimes we embrace the chance to embark on our passage, welcoming it as a chance to finally shed the adolescent skin and prove our worth against the incessant vagaries of fate. An enthralling novel of an extraordinary woman who created the life she desired, Mademoiselle Chanel explores the inner world of a woman of staggering ambition whose strength, passion and artistic vision would become her trademark.

My thoughts on Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Other times, our passage is obscured by the minutiae of an overcrowded life until we catch it in a glimpse of forbidden desire in an inexplicable sense of melancholic emptiness or a craving for more, always more, than what we already possess. An enthralling novel of an extraordinary woman who created the life she desired, Mademoiselle Chanel explores the inner world of a woman of staggering ambition whose strength, passion and artistic vision would become her trademark. Sometimes, the passage is evident - a sudden catastrophe that tests our mettle, a tragic loss that opens our eyes to the bane of our mortality, or a personal triumph that instills in us the confidence we need to cast aside our fears. “There comes an inevitable time in every life when we must cross a threshold and encounter that invisible divider between who we are and who we must become.

Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner